#Variants

tawanda chivese

TChivese

A quick word on the Sinopharm vaccine from China - seeing as there is so much debate on the TL The Sinopharm vaccine is made from a killed COVID-19 virus.

WIRED UK

WiredUK

In each warm body it infects, the virus behind Covid-19 has the potential to change. Most of those changes are slow and inconsequential. But, in some people, the virus hits

Bill Hanage

BillHanage

It has been a long tiring and, in many ways, terrifying week in the US. The events in DC have nevertheless obscured the growing public health crisis, which even with

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

“There’s clearly something going on with this mutation”: 7 striking new converging variants with same #677 mutations suddenly found. Experts across US independently found them & are worried—all 7 changed

Emilia C Skirmuntt 🦇🧬🦠

ESkirmuntt

SA variant and UK variant. Vaccinations and mutations. A thread: The South African variant (B1.351) was recently found in 8 places across the UK with no history of travel to

Monica Gandhi MD, MPH

MonicaGandhi9

I am behind - will tweet on the phase I/II data of the Novovax vaccine trial in NEJM tomorrow & press release of phase 3. But remember that immunity (herd

Isaac Bogoch

BogochIsaac

1/ Many are talking about gradually lifting public health measures as #COVID19 cases are dropping in Canadian settings. What is needed to avoid undoing our collective efforts & sacrifices as

Dr. Harmit S. Malik

HarmitMalik

Our christmas gift to ourselves this year: @AntoineMolaro's postdoc research paper now published in @PLOSbiology by way of @ReviewCommons with massive assistance from many folks especially @annajwood2 https://journals.plos.org/plosbiolo

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

This is criminal negligence. https://edmonton.ctvnews.ca/minor-sports-now-allowed-to-return-with-restrictions-as-alberta-set-to-lift-some-covid-19-measures-1.5298548 The new variants are quickly replacing the old variant which is waning. Ch

Yaneer Bar-Yam

yaneerbaryam

There is no doubt it is more transmissible because it is now over 60% of cases in London. And the effect happened so quickly it is huge. It’s obvious.2/https://twitter.com/yaneerbaryam/status/1341795377364799492 Second,

Dr Emma Hodcroft

firefoxx66

A #SARSCoV2 variant with a combination of mutations in Spike (S13I, W152C, L452R) has been making headlines & twitter rounds today, so - a fresh-from-the-oven S:L452R focal build is

Keith Humphreys

KeithNHumphreys

Later this year, many liberal democracies will face a massive cultural, political and health challenge: Everyone who wants a vaccine will have had one (willingness below, US is about 56%)

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

Fauci: “We have to be concerned about the mutants” He’s right on the concern for the #B117, #B1351, #P1. Plus the B117+E484K mutant combination is worrisome. #COVID19 2) Here

Burair/Бурайр/بُرَيْر

Burairss

[37th Thread: Burair debunked Burair - Corrections in Qur'an MS thread] This thread may come up as a surprise to many but self-critique is also a thing

Christian Angermayer

C_Angermayer

What’s happening in the #UK right now is further evidence of the lack of scientific leadership from ANY country during the #pandemic. We're gathering samples and doing PCRs of millions

Ian Berry

LaughingGenome

We made an exome diagnosis in a rare disease patient this month using a total of 2 PE sequencing reads, several hundred bps beyond the nearest coding region. Interesting anecdote

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